<TITLE>15. Par 132-142</TITLE>L-132   Let death do whatever it wants to, it'll never bother me. Because, I am persuaded, I am persuaded that even in sickness that might take me, or in a bullet from a gun, someday might take me. I don't know what it'll be. What difference does it make to me? "For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." Oh, my! Because, I'm determined I know Him sitting yonder across the river of death, where He'll pull me into His Presence someday. Justified by His righteousness, that I have accepted of His death upon the cross, God made flesh among us; still flesh in us, still Spirit in our flesh. Amen.

L-133 He's my Absolute. He's my all. Anything outside of that, nothing in my arms I bring. I know nothing else besides Christ, and Him crucified; don't want to hear nothing else but Christ, and Him crucified. My heart says "amen" to every one of His promise. That's why I know His Holy Spirit is a compass, It guides me to the Word.

L-134   Never has one of them visions ever said anything to me but what was right in the Word. Oh, that's where I got my assurance, brother. That night when He told me about that, I've watched those visions. And I'll call your attention, has that vision ever said anything that was contrary to the Word? Never a time has it ever been wrong. Why? It's God. That's my tie post.

L-135 And I know, one morning, in a vision, I seen my loved ones across the river yonder. It's there. I'm bound for that promised Land. I got to meet there someday. Yes, indeed.

L-136 He is my Absolute. He is my Sun. He is my Life. He's my tie post, my North Star. He's all that I could ever think to be, He is that to me. He's my Life.

L-137   Denominations, to me... Not hurting your feelings; I don't want to do that. But the Word is like a two-edged sword, It can't push without cutting, see, especially when It's cutting in darkness. Notice, denominations are like other stars, they shift with the turning of the world. That's right. Every way the world goes, they let their women cut their hair, wear shorts, and everything else, it just shifts with Hollywood and everything else. But, oh, brother, That still remains the Truth, that unmovable Word of the living God is still the Truth! It's my Absolute. What It says is the Truth. Let the denomination shift anywhere they want to. They want to discredit the Name of Jesus Christ, with a title, that's up to them. But, to me, "There is not another Name under Heaven given among men, whereby you must be saved." To me, that's the foundation Word, there is where the cornerstone is. I don't want to shift with no denomination.

L-138   I've got my Compass here within me, the Holy Spirit, points me right straight to the Absolute. "For both heavens and earth will pass away, but My Words shall never pass away." And I've hid It in my heart, and the Holy Ghost pointed me right to It. I'm determined to know nothing else. That's my Absolute. Just let it be like that. That's the way I want it. Oh, my! Now, brother, sister, make your Absolute in Him. Yes, sir.

L-139   In the time of trouble I had here not long ago, lost wife, children, everything. Somebody said to me, said, "Did you keep your religion?"

L-140 I said, "No, It kept me." See? See, I had an Absolute, to know that someday I'll see them again. Amen. I couldn't have made it if I wouldn't have had that Absolute. It made the difference in me, where I was tied, because I knowed that I'd see them again.

L-141 Now, by grace, I am tied to Him That said, "I AM," not "I was." "I AM," ever, ever-present, omni-, omniscient, omni-, omnipotent, infinite, that He is not "I was." "I AM," He is still the resurrection. He is still the North Star. He is still everything, to me.

L-142   Moses had an absolute. When he met that burning bush, that was an absolute to him. When Joshua, when Joshua...


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